Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- The four pieces of this hinged dissection may be arranged as a regular hexagon in two ways. An inscribed rectangle in red goes to one in green. The wooden core of the pieces is covered with plastic on the top and on the bottom.
- In his list of dissections, under "Regular Hexagons," Wheler describes this model as "Hexagon with a Hexagon Inside out" and denotes it as 4HG.
- A drawing of model 4HG (without the inscribed rectangle) in 1979.3002.55, folder 1, is dated April 21, 1932.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ca 1932
- ID Number
- MA.304723.795
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.795
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Other Terms
- Dissection
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- green (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- gold (overall color)
- cut, glued and hinged (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 1.4 cm x 9 cm x 10.5 cm; 9/16 in x 3 17/32 in x 4 1/8 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Plane Dissections
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1075274
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-2261-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
